Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (31/01/2025) announced the following final list of price concessions for January 2025:
Drug
Pack size
Price concession
Alendronic acid 70mg tablets
4
£1.21
Alfacalcidol 250nanogram capsules
30
£2.56
Amantadine 100mg capsules
56
£14.46
Ascorbic acid 500mg tablets
28
£37.49
Bromocriptine 2.5mg tablets
30
£57.00
Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free
7
£1.43
Buprenorphine 8mg sublingual tablets sugar free
7
£8.49
Captopril 50mg tablets
56
£29.19
Carbimazole 5mg tablets
100
£6.69
Desmopressin 240microgram sublingual tablets sugar free
30
£39.26
Dexamethasone (base) 3.3mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules
10
£9.25
Diclofenac diethylammonium 1.16% gel
100
£5.55
Flucloxacillin 250mg/5ml oral solution sugar free
100
£5.20
Haloperidol 1.5mg tablets
28
£7.56
Isosorbide mononitrate 10mg tablets
56
£1.74
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye drops
2.5
£3.05
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml eye drops
2.5
£1.53
Lercanidipine 10mg tablets
28
£2.38
Lofepramine 70mg tablets
56
£24.38
Lorazepam 1mg tablets
28
£3.20
Melatonin 1mg/ml oral solution sugar free
150
£25.56
Melatonin 2mg modified-release tablets
30
£2.86
Memantine 10mg tablets
28
£2.43
Memantine 10mg/ml oral solution sugar free
50
£21.50
Memantine 20mg tablets
28
£4.65
Metformin 1g / Sitagliptin 50mg tablets
56
£8.02
Metformin 500mg/5ml oral solution sugar free
150
£15.71
Mometasone 0.1% cream
30
£3.20
Olanzapine 10mg orodispersible tablets sugar free
28
£12.63
Olanzapine 15mg tablets
28
£3.25
Ondansetron 4mg tablets
10
£4.95
Pregabalin 150mg capsules
56
£2.33
Pregabalin 20mg/ml oral solution sugar free
473
£58.80
Pregabalin 50mg capsules
84
£7.63
Pregabalin 75mg capsules
56
£1.54
Prucalopride 2mg tablets
28
£10.00
Quetiapine 200mg tablets
60
£12.06
Ropinirole 2mg tablets
28
£25.99
Sitagliptin 100mg/5ml oral solution sugar free
150
£31.01
Tadalafil 2.5mg tablets
28
£12.08
Tadalafil 20mg tablets
4
£1.04
Tadalafil 5mg tablets
28
£6.07
Telmisartan 80mg tablets
28
£9.93
Vardenafil 20mg tablets
4
£20.03
Venlafaxine 225mg modified-release capsules
28
£18.40
For the full list of price concessions granted for January 2025 so far please visit our price concession hub page here.
No additional endorsements are required for price concessions. A price concession only applies for the month it is granted; any prices agreed for concessions requested late in the month will roll over into the following month.
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Improvements to the price concession system
Following significant concerns raised by pharmacy owners about the unsustainable level of prices imposed by DHSC in second half of 2022, it was agreed that an urgent review of the price concession setting system would take place.
Since this announcement, we have sent a strong and clear message back to Government that pharmacy owners cannot continue to subsidise the NHS medicines bill. Following the review of the concessionary price process in 2023, a package of measures has been developed to improve the system. These include:
all products granted a concessionary price will be classified as ‘Discount Not Deducted’ for the month(s) in which they are on concession
any agreed prices for concessions requested on or after the 23rd of the month will be rolled over to the following month
a retrospective increased payment system for price concession lines where data subsequently identifies that the original price concessions granted were inappropriately low. Further information regarding this concession ‘top-up’ mechanism can be found here.
Please see our latest funding and reimbursement short video for further information on all the recent changes to the price concession process.
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